ROTFLMAO!! This has happened to me several times and you are dead on
with his Michener/Melville-esque "attention to detail".
What ever happened to, "It was a dark and stormy night...."? Is Clancy
writing his own stuff again or is he franchised out?
He needs some LBC's incorporated into the plot. I can visualize the words:
In his vain attempt to catch the green eyed, 31 year old, 6'8", blond
killer, Jack Ryan desperately downshifts his Bugeye Sprite with the twin
turbo 948cc, 210 bhp motor protesting at 8000 rpms from 2nd gear to 1st,
forgetting the smooth case transmission, # 22493, is without synchromesh
on its 3.627:1 first gear....... and you may continue the description of
the consequences of that action in your minds eye.
Boy this takes up a lot of bandwidth! Don't you wish everyone wrote
this way Mark?
We now return you to your regularly schedule event.
DW
On 2/9/2013 6:25 PM, HealeyRick wrote:
> 851 pp? Sometimes, Clancy could spare me some details. Why does his stuff
> have to be like:
>
> "The sniper cradled his Remington MSR chambered in
> .338
> Lapua Magnum, He loaded the 14.93 mm diameter and 93.5 mm long cartridge
> manufactured in Lapua, Finland which is located next to the Lapua River in the
> province of Western Finland and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region.
> The town has a population of 14,612 (31 December 2012) and covers an area of
> 750.77 square kilometres (289.87 sq mi) of which 13.67 km2 (5.28 sq mi) is
> water. The population density is 19.82 inhabitants per square kilometre
> (51.3 /sq mi)"
>
> You get the idea. OTOH, maybe I'm just mad at him for the day
> I was flying Boston to Phoenix and grabbed a Clancy book at the airport
> bookstore for the flight. About 20 pages in, I realized I had already read
> it. It was a very long flight.
>
>
> Rick
>
>
> "Madman in a death machine"
> Follow
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> From: James Gruber <thistle_3619@yahoo.com>
> To: Spridgets Digest <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Saturday, February 9,
> 2013 2:55 PM
> Subject: [Spridgets] Goods Books for a Winter's Storm
>
> Hey the
> new Tom Clancy, Threat Vector, is indeed a page turner. 851 to be
> precise.
> The guy continues to stay on top of his game and stuff on cyber
> warfare seems
> really close to reality.
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